parentheses
Example Sentences
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It’s less jarring than parentheses but a bigger interruption than commas.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025
They are listed in ascending order of their trailing-month returns, which are displayed in the parentheses.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 10, 2025
It will always be a melter of a slow jam, but its intention is in those parentheses – to be in the sensation of aliveness he’s created.
From Salon • Oct. 19, 2025
The Associated Press state football poll for Washington as voted upon by a panel of sports media from across state with first-place votes in parentheses, season record and points from the poll.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 26, 2023
The following day, Mr. Lawson writes “Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol” in capital letters on the board, draws a box around it, then writes the dates of the author’s birth and death in parentheses.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
